Academic literature on the topic 'Nino pozzo'

Del Rio G, Menozzi R, Zizzo G, Avogaro A, Marrama P, Velardo A. Increased cardiovascular response to caffeine in perimenopausal women before and during estrogen therapy. Eur J Endocrinol 1996; 135:598–603. ISSN 0804–4643 Perimenopause and menopause may be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, so we have investigated the cardiovascular and catecholamine response to caffeine in perimenopausal women compared to young cycling premenopausal subjects. Caffeine (250 mg per os) was administered to nine perimenopausal women and nine premenopausal women. The perimenopausal women repeated the test after 4 months of percutaneous estrogen replacement therapy. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, plasma norepinephrine, epinephrine, glucose, insulin and free fatty acids were determined at 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 min after caffeine administration. No differences were found in the basal values of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, norepinephrine, epinephrine, insulin, glucose and free fatty acids between perimenopausal women, both before and after therapy, and premenopausal women. Caffeine induced a higher increase of systolic (F = 4.9; p < 0.05) and diastolic blood pressure (F = 4.7; p < 0.05) in perimenopausal women before and during estrogen therapy as compared with premenopausal women. Pulse rate increased significantly only in perimenopausal women before therapy (F = 6.5; p < 0.03). These data show that perimenopause either before or during short-term estrogen therapy is associated with enhanced cardiovascular reactivity to caffeine. This phenomenon is not due to increased adrenergic and metabolic responses. Graziano Del Rio, Department of Internal Medicine via del Pozzo, 71 41100 Modena, Italy

Velardo A, Del Rio G, Zizzo G, Venneri MG, Della Casa L, Marrama P. Plasma catecholamines after thyrotropin-releasing hormone administration in hypothyroid patients before and during therapy. Eur J Endocrinol 1994;130:220–3. ISSN 0804–4643 In order to investigate sympathoadrenal activity in hypothyroidism we studied the cardiovascular and catecholamine responses to thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) infusion in nine hypothyroid patients before and during adequate therapy and in seven healthy subjects. We evaluated mean arterial pressure, heart rate, plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels after TRH administration (200 μg iv) in the three groups. Mean arterial pressure, heart rate and plasma epinephrine levels were not different in the three groups and did not change after TRH administration. Hypothyroid subjects showed increased plasma norepinephrine levels (1.48 ± 0.15 nmol/l), which were reduced after euthyroidism was reached (0.84 ± 0.11 nmol/l) (p < 0.01). An exaggerated response of norepinephrine to TRH was observed in hypothyroid patients before therapy (incremental peak (IP) = 0.59 ± 0.13 nmol/l) but not in hypothyroid patients during therapy (IP = 0.19 ± 0.02 nmol/l p < 0.02) or in the control group (IP = 0.15 ± 0.04 nmol/l; p < 0.05). This study indicated that TRH administration is able to influence the sympathetic activity during hypothyroidism in humans. A Velardo. Cattedra di Endocrinologia, Via del Pozzo 71, 41100 Modena, Italy

Se investigó la relación entre la preferencia de selección de sitios de anidamiento, la posición jerárquica y el éxito reproductivo del Periquito de anteojos (Forpus conspicillatus) en la Universidad del Valle y en la Reserva Natural Pozo Verde, en el Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Los sitios de anidamiento se instalaron según las variables: altura sobre el suelo (1 m y 4 m) y distancia al árbol más próximo (0 m, 15 m y 50 m). Las parejas de adultos prefirieron las cajas nido ubicadas a 4 m de altura sobre el suelo. La posición jerárquica de las parejas no se correlacionó significativamente con la prioridad de elección de las cajas nido, pero sí con la escogencia de cajas en los sitios preferidos. Las parejas dominantes produjeron un mayor número de huevos que las subordinadas, pero no hubo correlación entre posición jerárquica y número de polluelos que alcanzaron el éxodo. Tampoco se encontró correlación entre productividad anual, medida como el número de polluelos que llegaron al éxodo y la ubicación de las cajas nido. La ausencia de correlación pudo deberse a que la depredación, la principal causa de mortalidad de polluelos, tuvo igual incidencia en todas las situaciones. El infanticidio por Troglodytes aëdon fue responsable del 30.30% de los fracasos de los nidos de F. conspicillatus, pero los daños por T. aëdon no fueron más frecuentes en los sitios preferidos por F. conspicillatus.

International Journal of Contemporary Education (IJCE) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether IJCE publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 4, Number 1 Aurora Q. Pestano, University of San Jose Recoletos, PhilippinesAziz Moummou, Ministry of Education, MoroccoBlessing Dwumah Manu, Jiangsu University, GhanaBožić-Lenard Dragana, University of Osijek Croatia, CroatiaBruna Gabriela Augusto Marçal Vieira, CEFET-MG, BrazilDina Radeljas, Mohawk Valley Community College, USAEdward Bolden, Case Western Reserve University, USAFederica Cornali, University of Turin, ItalyGiuseppe Maugeri, Ca' Foscari University, ItalyGraziano Serragiotto, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, ItalyInaad M Sayer, University of Human Development, IraqLi Li, Bath Spa University, UKMakrina Nina Zafiri, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreeceMatthew Schatt, University of Florida, USANilgün Tosun, Trakya University, TurkeyRaymond Aaron Younis, ACU Australia, AustraliaTeresa Pozo-Rico, University of Alicante, SpainVassiliki Pliogou, Metropolitan College of Thessaloniki, GreeceVassilios Papadimitriou, University of Thessaly, Greece William OscarEditorial AssistantInternational Journal of Contemporary Education------------------------------------------------------------Redfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USATel: 1-503-828-0536 ext. 509Fax: 1-503-828-0537E-mail 1: ijce@redfame.comE-mail 2: ijce@redfame.orgURL: http://ijce.redfame.com

Pozzo, L., Tarantola, M., Biasibetti, E., Capucchio, M. T., Pagella, M., Mellia, E., Bergagna, S., Gennero, M. S., Strazzullo, G. and Schiavone, A. 2013. Adverse effects in broiler chickens fed a high lycopene concentration supplemented diet. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 93: 231–241. The present investigation was designed to assess the effects of the administration of a high dietary lycopene dose to broiler chickens on growth and slaughter performances, haemato–biochemical parameters, antioxidant enzymes, histological lesions and lycopene accumulation in the tissues. Thirty-six 1-d-old male Hubbard broiler chicks were examined and divided randomly into two groups (three replicates for each dietary treatment): the Control group, which received a basal diet, and the Lycopene group, which received the basal diet supplemented with 500 mg lycopene kg−1diet. The experimental period lasted 35 d and growth performance was recorded on a weekly basis. At the end of the experiment (day 35), blood samples (n=12) were collected from the femoral vein. Erythrocyte and leukocyte numbers were assessed and the heterophil-to-lymphocyte ratio was determined. The alpha-1-acid glycoprotein, lysozyme, total protein and the electrophoretic patterns were evaluated in serum samples. Nine chickens per group were slaughtered to measure the carcass yields and the weight of the liver, spleen, bursa of Fabricius and thymus. Spleen, liver, and bursa of Fabricius samples were collected for histological examination and fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin. The lycopene concentration, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and chemical composition were assayed in breast meat and thigh samples. The TBARS, glutathione content, catalase and superoxide dismutase activity were measured in liver and kidney samples. The high lycopene concentration supplemented diet did not affect the birds’ growth, slaughter performance or antioxidant enzymes in the breast meat, thigh meat, liver and kidney samples. The concentrations of lycopene in the breast and thigh of the lycopene-supplemented group were 0.10±0.05 mg kg−1and 0.42±0.35 mg kg−1, respectively, while no lycopene was found in the Control group. Spleen and bursa of Fabricius of birds fed a diet supplemented with a high level of lycopene showed weight decrease (P<0.05) and degenerative lesions (P<0.05). Moreover, lycopene supplementation reduced the serum protein concentration, albumin, alpha and the gamma globulin serum concentration (P<0.05).

International Journal of Contemporary Education (IJCE) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether IJCE publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 2, Number 2Alexandra Ingram, University of Tennessee, USAÁlvaro Manzano Redondo, UCJC University, SpainAurora Q. Pestano, University of San Jose Recoletos, PhilippinesBlessing Dwumah Manu, Jiangsu University, GhanaDina Radeljas, Mohawk Valley Community College, USAFederica Cornali, University of Turin, ItalyFroilan Delute Mobo, Philippine Merchant Marine Academy, PhilippinesGiuseppe Maugeri, Ca' Foscari University, ItalyInaad M Sayer, University of Human Development, IraqIonel Bondoc, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iasi, RomaniaIosif Fragkoulis, Hellenic Open University, GreeceJavier Fombona, Univ. Oviedo, SpainLi Li, Bath Spa University, UKMakrina Nina Zafiri, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreeceMatthew Schatt, University of Florida, USAMs. Bruna Gabriela Augusto Marçal Vieira, Universidade Estadual Paulista, BrazilMurat Tezer, Near East University, CyprusNesrin Ozturk, Ege University, TurkeyNoelia Navarro Gómez, Universidad de Almería, SpainRaymond Aaron Younis, ACU Australia, AustraliaSaid K. Juma, State University of Zanzibar, TanzaniaSandro Sehic, Oneida BOCES, USASuriadi Samsuri, Institute of Islamic Religion Sultan Muhammad Syafiuddin Sambas, IndonesiaTeresa Pozo-Rico, University of Alicante, SpainVassiliki Pliogou, Metropolitan College of Thessaloniki, GreeceVassilios Papadimitriou, University of Thessaly, GreeceXiaojing Sun, Utrecht University, The Netherlands William OscarEditorial AssistantInternational Journal of Contemporary Education---------------------------------------------------------Redfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USATel: 1-503-828-0536 ext. 509Fax: 1-503-828-0537E-mail: ijce@redfame.comURL: http://ijce.redfame.com

In this article we report on the results of our attempts to locate and study shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta on the southern (Jalisco) side of the Banderas Valley of coastal West Mexico and to place these tombs in the broader context of burial practices in this area during a time corresponding to the Late Preclassic and Early Classic of Mesoamerica. We located and studied nine sites where shaft-and-chamber tombs had reportedly been discovered and looted, but here we focus on three (El Reparito, El Pozo de Doña Amparo, and La Pedrera) where we were able to excavate un-looted as well as partially looted shaft-and-chamber tombs. In the process we obtained evidence of (1) the location and type of soil selected for the excavation of such tombs; (2) variation in the form and content of the shafts and tomb chambers; (3) the tools used for digging and the manner of sealing such tombs; (4) chronological placement of the tombs; (5) burial of infants, sub-adults, and adults in the chambers; (5) pathology in the pre-Hispanic population responsible for such tombs; (6) cremation of bodies and their curation for different periods of time before incineration; and (7) alternative forms of interment along with shaft-and-chamber tombs in the same cemetery. Also, the data obtained lend support for the idea that the Ameca River and the Banderas Valley formed a “soft frontier” at this time between fairly distinct pre-Hispanic cultural traditions found to the north and to the south of the river, an area in which there was some intermixing of these traditions.

Summary Evaluation and improvement of sweep efficiency are important for miscible displacement of medium-viscosity oils. A high-pressure quarter-five-spot cell was used to conduct multicontact miscible (MCM) water-alternating-gas (WAG) displacements at reservoir conditions. A dead reservoir oil (78 cp) was displaced by ethane. The minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) for ethane with the reservoir oil is approximately 4.14 MPa (600 psi). Gasflood followed by waterflood improves the oil recovery over waterflood alone in the quarter five-spot. As the pressure decreases, the gasflood oil recovery increases slightly in the pressure range of 4.550-9.514 MPa (660-1,380 psi) for this undersaturated viscous oil. WAG improves the sweep efficiency and oil recovery in the quarter five-spot over the continuous gas injection. WAG injection slows down gas breakthrough. A decrease in the solvent amount lowers the oil recovery in WAG floods, but significantly more oil can be recovered with just 0.1 pore volume (PV) solvent (and water) injection than with waterflood alone. Use of a horizontal production well lowers the sweep efficiency over the vertical production well during WAG injection. Sweep efficiency is higher for the nine-spot pattern than for the five-spot pattern during gas injection. Sweep efficiency during WAG injection increases with the WAG ratio in the five-spot model. Introduction As the light-oil reservoirs get depleted, there is increasing interest in producing more-viscous-oil reservoirs. Thermal techniques are appropriate for heavy-oil reservoirs. But gasflooding can play an important role in medium-viscosity-oil (30-300 cp) reservoirs and is the subject of this paper. Roughly 20 billion to 25 billion bbl of medium-weight- to heavy-weight-oil deposits are estimated in the North Slope of Alaska. Approximately 10 billion to 12 billion bbl exist in West Sak/Schrader Bluff formation alone (McGuire et al. 2005). Miscible gasflooding has been proved to be a cost-effective enhanced oil recovery technique. There are approximately 80 gasflooding projects (CO2, flue gas, and hydrocarbon gas) in the US and approximately 300,000 B/D is produced from gasflooding, mostly from light-oil reservoirs (Moritis 2004). The recovery efficiency [10-20% of the original oil in place (OOIP)] and solvent use (3-12 Mcf/bbl) need to be improved. The application of miscible and immiscible gasflooding needs to be extended to medium-viscosity-oil reservoirs. McGuire et al. (2005) have proposed an immiscible WAG flooding process, called viscosity-reduction WAG, for North Slope medium-visocisty oils. Many of these oils are depleted in their light-end hydrocarbons C7-C13. When a mixture of methane and natural gas liquid is injected, the ethane and components condense into the oil and decrease the viscosity of oil, making it easier for the water to displace the oil. From reservoir simulation, this process is estimated to enhance oil recovery compared to waterflood from 19 to 22% of the OOIP, which still leaves nearly 78% of the OOIP. Thus, further research should be directed at improving the recovery efficiency of these processes for viscous-oil reservoirs. Recovery efficiency depends on microscopic displacement efficiency and sweep efficiency. Microscopic displacement efficiency depends on pressure, (Dindoruk et al. 1992; Wang and Peck 2000) composition of the solvent and oil (Stalkup 1983; Zick 1986), and small-core-scale heterogeneity (Campbell and Orr 1985; Mohanty and Johnson 1993). Sweep efficiency of a miscible flood depends on mobility ratio (Habermann 1960; Mahaffey et al. 1966; Cinar et al. 2006), viscous-to-gravity ratio (Craig et al. 1957; Spivak 1974; Withjack and Akervoll 1988), transverse Peclet number (Pozzi and Blackwell 1963), well configuration, and reservoir heterogeneity, (Koval 1963; Fayers et al. 1992) in general. The effect of reservoir heterogeneity is difficult to study at the laboratory scale and is addressed mostly by simulation (Haajizadeh et al. 2000; Jackson et al. 1985). Most of the laboratory sweep-efficiency studies (Habermann 1960; Mahaffey et al. 1966; Jackson et al. 1985; Vives et al. 1999) have been conducted with first-contact fluids or immiscible fluids at ambient pressure/temperature and may not be able to respresent the displacement physics of multicontact fluids at reservoir conditions. In fact, four methods are proposed for sweep improvement in gasflooding: WAG (Lin and Poole 1991), foams (Shan and Rossen 2002), direct thickeners (Xu et al. 2003), and dynamic-profile control in wells (McGuire et al. 1998). To evaluate any sweep-improvement methods, one needs controlled field testing. Field tests generally are expensive and not very controlled; two different tests cannot be performed starting with identical initial states, and, thus, results are often inconclusive. Field-scale modeling of compositionally complex processes can be unreliable because of inadequate representation of heterogeneity and process complexity in existing numerical simulators. There is a need to conduct laboratory sweep-efficiency studies with the MCM fluids at reservoir conditions to evaluate various sweep-improvement techniques. Reservoir-conditions laboratory tests can be used to calibrate numerical simulators and evaluate qualitative changes in sweep efficiency. We have built a high-pressure quarter-five-spot model where reservoir-conditions multicontact WAG floods can be conducted and evaluated (Dao et al. 2005). The goal of this paper is to evaluate various WAG strategies for a model oil/multicontact solvent in this high-pressure laboratory cell. In the next section, we outline our experimental techniques. The results are summarized in the following section.

Introdução: A candidemia é uma das infecções nasocomiais mais frequentes a nível mundial e apresenta diferentes espécies de Candida envolvidas com o desenvolvimento dessa patologia. Objetivo: Este estudo analisou os aspectos epidemiológicos e as diferentes espécies de Candida associadas à candidemia. Material e Métodos: Uma revisão de literatura foi realizada, através da leitura de artigos científicos publicados nas bases de dados Pubmed e Scielo nos últimos cinco anos. Utilizou-se as seguintes combinações de descritores: Candidemia, Candidemia e Prevalência, Candidemia e Incidência, Candidemia e Candida. Resultados: A candidemia é a infecção fúngica mais hostil atualmente encontrada e prevalente nas populações estudadas. A população mais afetada são os recém-nascidos. Apresenta altas taxas de mortalidade e disseminação em várias partes do mundo. 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La presente ricerca, dopo una prima analisi del teatro di figura nel contesto veronese tra Ottocento e Novecento, si propone di indagare la figura di Nino Pozzo, burattinaio scaligero del XX secolo. Attraverso lo studio dei materiali presenti nel Fondo Pozzo è stato possibile analizzare il repertorio di un artista che ha segnato la storia del teatro di figura veronese del Novecento. Tale fondo è costituito da tutti i materiali del burattinaio, sia appartenenti agli spettacoli (con canovacci e studi preparatori), sia legati alla fruizione degli stessi grazie alla cronaca del tempo. Si denota, infatti, una cura da parte di Pozzo nell’archiviare tutto ciò che concerne il suo lavoro artistico, possibilità data anche dal fatto che l’artista aveva prediletto una vita stanziale rispetto a una girovaga che spesso burattinai e marionettisti erano soliti realizzare.

This chapter briefly introduces nine classical geometric-optical illusions. These include the Delboeuf illusion, the Ebbinghaus illusion, the Judd illusion, the Müller-Lyer illusion, the Ponzo illusion, the vertical illusion, the Hering illusion, the Poggendorff illusion, and the Zoellner illusion. It then demonstrates that they persist under different luminance conditions and under isoluminance. The empirical findings show that our conscious percept is similarly affected by luminance conditions and isoluminance, suggesting that joint contour processing (chromatic and luminance) may extend well beyond early visual areas. The chapter further discusses these concepts in terms of the magnocellular system, the parvocellular system, and the koniocellular system.